Orange County Innovation

Ed Carels of Datalabs

Show #61 Listen (43:52) Download
Clinical trials are always expensive. Datalabs has software to accelerate the design and development of the research protocol for drug testing: “faster, cheaper and easier than they’re currently doing” for large pharmaceutical companies and contract testing firms.

Curt Pringle, Mayor of Anaheim

Show #59 (27:30) Download
City-wide wiFi and other market-driven principles, those are the topics when my guest Curt Pringle joins the podcast. He’s the mayor of “freedom friendly” Anaheim and together with the City Council they’ve modified the city charter to rezone the Platinum Triangle around Angel Stadium and The Pond to create an […]

Medici Circle

Show #56 (42:21) Download
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Dean Nohema Fernandez of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UCIrvine speaks of the motivation she had to create the Medici Circle scholarship program for students with activities during the summer months. She’s joined on the podcast by graduate student Kara […]

Chuck Martin

Show #55 (34:56) Download
He likes “white space” in a market, something that isn’t being addressed by others; that’s what he’d look for when evaluating a venture capital opportunity. “Everything comes down to execution,” says Chuck. He’s a legend in southern California venture capital and the founder of Enterprise Partners.
Chuck describes the […]

Video for the World Innovation Forum

Show #54 (0:48) Download QuickTime Windows
Toshiba is sponsoring the World Innovation Forum in New York May 23 & 24. They asked us to create a short video to highlight Orange County Innovation. Enter The Irvine Company and their video gurus merit/andrew. The result is 48 seconds of gorgeous footage of Orange County. […]

Jim Mazzo, CEO Advanced Medical Optics

Show #53 (32:53) Download
“Vision for Life” is the motto for Advanced Medical Optics, that’s what we’ll hear from CEO Jim Mazzo. AMO is a spin-off from Allergan with a billion dollars in revenue. The products include laser vision correction, contact lens care and cataract surgery technologies.
Jim’s involved at Chapman University, UCIrvine, the University […]

Finalist: High Impact Person of the Year

It began: “I am very pleased to inform you that you are a finalist in the category of High Impact Person of the Year for the 13th Annual Orange County High-Tech Innovation Awards & Technology Showcase” from Tim Jemal, Executive Director of the AeA, Orange County Council.
So keep your fingers crossed and join me at […]

Louis Knobbe

Show #50 (39:05) Download
Louis Knobbe co-founded Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP in 1962. He credits Dr. Arnold Beckman with starting the high technology industry we see today in Orange County. The firm’s been in the news lately for the award in a patent infringement case where Masimo won a $265 million settlement […]

Cartoonist Martha Montoya

Show #49 (29:25) Download
Meet Martha Montoya; she’s the creator of a Hispanic cartoon with a social commentary, Los Kitos. Born and raised in Columbia, her parents were in the business of education owning two universities.

Mark Lieberman from LA’s Business Technology Center

Show #48 (20:35) Download
Host Frank Peters interviews Mark Lieberman, the Administrator for Los Angeles County’s Business Technology Center, an incubator of sorts. Mark and Jim Schaefer came up with the idea for LA Tech Week, which just completed its third year. In part, LA Tech Week is the inspiration behind Orange County Innovation […]